| Swatch - YOS403 (Size: men) | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:11:37 PM by BlogJeeves Team | | Swiss quartz movement, Casual watch, Chronograph, Swatch's Unknown Destination, Silver-tone luminous hands and indices, White numbers, Small black indices on outer dial, Tachymeter ruler in black on outer white concave ring, Analog date display, Brushed stainless steel bezel, crown, case, selector buttons, caseback and battery hatch, 30 meters/100 feet water resistant... | |
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| | | Adobe Chooses Famster As #1 Website of the Day; Famster Rises to ... | | Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:36:36 PM by BlogJeeves Team | | LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2006--Famster, a subsidiary of Ivenue.com and the industry's leading private social networking site, today announced, Adobe has chosen Famster as the Adobe site of the day within the first 48 hrs of its public launch. Adobe recognizes projects based on strong visual design, technical execution, usability, interesting and/or timely content, as well as overall innovative use of Adobe products. In addition, since launching, over 20,000 users have built individual sites on Famster and 100,000 unique users have visited the famster.com website. Famster, which is built completely in flash is fully functional in almost any browser. The Flash Platform delivers the most effective experiences for rich content applications, and communications across browsers, operating systems, and devices.... | |
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| | | Adobe GoLive/LiveMotion Pack | | Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:27:11 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | Animate, develop, manage, and deploy dynamic, interactive sites for the Web and wireless devices with the Adobe GoLive/LiveMotion Pack. Take advantage of LiveMotion 2.0 to create and animate interactive content for use on Web pages, in product demos, and for CD presentations. Use ActionScript to create Macromedia Flash (SWF) animations and streamline workflow with automation scripts. Develop Web sites with GoLive 6.0 software, and easily manage your assets, files, and sites with the integrated Adobe Web Workgroup Server. Built-in phone emulators help you visually create, emulate, and test content for multiple wireless devices, including WML and i-mode phones. Save time by checking code against the latest W3C code standards. With the Adobe GoLive/LiveMotion Pack, you can efficiently create a dynamic Web presence.... | |
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| | | Adobe LiveMotion | | Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 6:26:46 PM by BlogJeeves Team | | Adobe enters the arena of Web animation tools with LiveMotion 1.0, a tool that's used to create vector-based animation for Web delivery. Many of the animation-specific features are based on Adobe's After Effects, long a dominant player in the field of motion graphics and animation. If you've used After Effects, you'll feel comfortable immediately with LiveMotion. In many ways, LiveMotion is a better tool for creating vector-based animation than Macromedia's Flash, its very popular competitor. Using a timeline/keyframe metaphor, LiveMotion makes it easy to animate the properties of an object over time. Position, scale, opacity, and rotation all can be controlled with relative ease. It's also painless to create HTML elements, such as animated rollovers for menus and graphics. However, if you come from a Flash background, you might be a bit disappointed with LiveMotion. For starters, there are no scripting features. Also, LiveMotion's compression isn't quite as good as Flash's. In a test in which the same animation was exported from both Flash and LiveMotion, the .swf file that was created by LiveMotion was about 15% larger. Because file size and download rates are so critical to Web-based graphic design, it's important to be aware of this type of issue. Despite these shortcomings, we found it easier to draw and animate by using LiveMotion. Superior (in both form and function) bezier drawing tools make it a snap to set up ready-to-animate graphics. Again, Adobe has kept LiveMotion's "feel" in the family by ensuring that the drawing functions are very similar to those of Illustrator. If you're looking to create high-quality, interactive Web content, Flash might be the way to go, especially if you're more familiar with Macromedia's look and feel. However, if animation--and not interactivity--is the goal, and you have experience with Adobe's other products, LiveMotion should be a good fit. All in all, this is a very good first release. --Mike Caputo... | |
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| | | Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0 | | Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 8:27:35 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | By merging Photoshop sophistication with tutorials and newbie helpers--and offering it at a pocketbook-friendly price--Adobe has created a cool tool for digital shutterbugs. Based on Photoshop 6.0, Photoshop Elements trims the most advanced features from Photoshop and replaces them with buckets of user-friendliness. The interface, which will feel immediately comfortable to Mac users, is full of hints and helpers. By default, the workspace contains a dynamic hints window that displays nuggets of data and links to more detailed help for each tool your mouse cursor passes over. Tabs displayed above the workspace function similarly to pull-down menus: clicking on one opens a window which covers functions such as file browsing, displaying image revision history, applying effects and filters, and so on. Some even act like Windows-style wizard tutorials. The most wizard-like among these is the Recipes window, which walks users through the software's hundred or so image editing options with step-by-step instructions. Recipes included with the program deal with the most pedestrian of tasks like color correction and image rotating, all the way up to daring endeavors like colorizing black-and-white photos and creating animated GIF files. More recipes are available via download. Behind all of these simplicity-centric goodies is a powerful and feature-rich image editing program, and it's crammed with every bit of functionality we've come to expect from Adobe. Ready to deal with every image file format one would likely encounter, its layer management is topnotch (even compared to Paint Shop Pro 7). Photoshop Elements is also able to pare image file sizes down and prep them for immediate Web posting, and its real-time, text-on-image editing is second to none. Granted, the application lacks some of Photoshop's functionality, such as the ability to output files in CMYK format, although it is able to read CMYK files. Alternately, some of its unique features will make Photoshop owners jealous--like the incredibly smooth Photomerge, which creates a single panorama out of a series of overlapping photos. If you're looking for a comprehensive, intuitive, and affordable photo editor, Elements proves it can play with the best of them. --Joel Durham, Jr.... | |
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| | | Adobe GoLive 6.0 | | Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:26:43 PM by BlogJeeves Team | | Adobe has taken GoLive, its Web design and management tool, and improved its integration with other applications, adding a number of useful extras in the process. In addition to the design elements of the program, GoLive 6.0 includes sections devoted to Web site management and maintenance, as well as team collaboration. The main working area of the program deliberately looks much like other Adobe applications, making it easy to move between them. The main editing windows float on the GoLive worktop, with palettes of functions controlling the tools. Users can now drag and stash palette tabs individually at the edge of the screen. The key new features of GoLive 6.0 can be divided into three areas. Under the design-and-develop category comes greatly improved table handling, with new editing features--particularly selection--and increased control of HTML code. Adobe has also integrated GoLive more closely with Photoshop, Illustrator, and LiveMotion. Manage functions govern how several people working on same aspect of a site handle different versions and revisions. The revision list is a good example, as it offers full details of who made certain changes to what, along with the time the changes were entered. Finally, there's the deploy function, for when you finally launch your site. This feature offers new and improved support for WML authoring, writing for display on WAP devices, XML, QuickTime, and more of the growing family of Web standards. Overall, GoLive is a worthwhile improvement if you're thinking about upgrading from a previous version. For newbies, make sure you're serious about Web site management, as this is a heavyweight tool. --Simon Williams... | |
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| | | Adobe After Effects 5.0 Pro | | Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 8:26:34 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | Adobe After Effects 5.0 enables you to create motion graphics and visual effects for professional cross-media delivery. It is a complete tool set for 2-D and 3-D compositing, animation, and effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web, and offers tight integration with Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. After Effects 5.0 features the Adobe user interface familiar to anyone who uses Photoshop, Illustrator, or Premiere. The tabbed windows, tabbed palettes, common tools, and common keyboard shortcuts make it possible to move among the programs with ease. Other features, such as the pen tool, align palette, rulers and guides, editing tools, and free transform mode, also work in After Effects just as they do in other Adobe products.When you import a layered Photoshop file as a composition, After Effects retains layers and other key Photoshop settings. You can transform layered Photoshop images into animations with ease. Import files as compositions one at a time or in batches: After Effects preserves layers, common layer effects, adjustment layers, alpha channels, transfer modes, vector masks, and more. You can then apply visual effects to color correct, stylize, or manipulate each layer, and to animate these layers over time. Use Photoshop paths as mask or motion points. Move easily between Photoshop and After Effects to complete your work. Similarly convenient integration is possible with Illustrator and Premiere.... | |
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| | | Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard Upgrade (Mac) | | Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 10:26:45 PM by BlogJeeves Team | | Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard Upgrade for MAC . Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard software enables business professionals to easily convert any electronic or paper document - even a Web site - to a reliable Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file for exchange and review with colleagues and customers. Easily create an Adobe PDF file from any document, from paper scans, and from Web sites. Automatically scan paper document archives to compact, fully searchable Adobe PDF files. Automatically create a list of reviewers and track whether feedback is received. Indicate text edits such as instions, deletions, and replacements with a single keystroke add custom stamps and use sticky notes and highlights to comment on documents. Gather comments from multiple reviewers into a single Adobe PDF file, or view them collectively in a separate window. Secure files with password protection to prevent unauthorized users from opening and viewing sensitive documents. Apply permissions with 128-bit encryption that control whether users are allowed to view, edit, comment on, sign, or print Adobe PDF files. Approve final documents with secure digital signatures. Verify authenticity and build a list of trusted certificates.... | |
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| | | Adobe Streamline 4.0 (Mac) | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 12:27:00 PM by BlogJeeves Team | | Streamline 4.0 is an excellent bridge between the worlds of freehand drawing and resolution-independent graphics. At its heart, the software is basically a conversion utility, a tool for importing bitmapped (raster) images and exporting them as vector-based line art. But it's a disservice to the application to downplay what is so simply stated.The value of Streamline becomes apparent after the first conversion--it quickens the heart to see a hand-drawn, bitmapped image imported into a program like Adobe Illustrator, where one can tweak the curve and width of any line, and scale it up until it fills a billboard.The process starts with a drawing or image being scanned in or photographed with a digital camera and saved out from a program like Adobe Photoshop. It is then opened in Streamline (it works with many file types, including native Photoshop) where the image is converted to vector lines.The options for conversion are numerous: control point density, smoothness, line width, stroke or fill, curve smoothing. Additionally, areas of the original image can be selectively converted, with each area using different conversion settings--some for smoother, thicker lines, some for rougher, more edgy lines, and variations thereof. Also, Streamline 4.0 now features a "convert to" command, for converting a roughly drawn shape into a standard shape; for example, a crude egg shape on a cocktail napkin could be converted to a perfect circle, or four rough strokes into a smooth, even rectangle. Streamline 4.0 also supports converting colors to vector-based areas of color. One can specify the number of colors to use and which color palette would best match.Adobe-standard keyboard shortcuts improve one's efficiency with the application, and being able to drag and drop across applications is a handy feature that anyone can grow to love.Freehand drawing on a computer is not as easy or straightforward as taking pencil to paper--a natural quality is lacking, a texture more felt than seen. But graphics software offers features not found in "real-life" art, like the ability to scale an image up and down without losing the sharpness of a line. For any serious digital artist, Streamline is a must-have. It is one of those tools that is used the least, but appreciated the most. --Mike Caputo... | |
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| | | Adobe Premiere 5.1 | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:26:57 AM by BlogJeeves Team | | Adobe Premiere 5.1 marks an evolutionary step for one of the oldest desktop digital video editing applications. Premiere now includes many of the tools professional editors expect, while maintaining a friendly and forgiving interface that's designed to comfort users new to digital video applications. Using a common "project window/time line" metaphor, Premiere imports AVI, QuickTime, image sequences, Photoshop files, Illustrator files, and most graphic formats. These can be laid down as tracks and edited to music, effects, or dialog. Premiere supports up to 99 video tracks and 99 audio tracks--enough to satisfy any digital-video amateur or professional. A wide variety of effects and transitions is included, ranging from basic dissolves and wipes to the more obscure tools for color shifting and artistic renderings. Premiere supports color keying (overlaying one track atop another by forcing a background color to be invisible) as well as alpha channel compositing. Motion Settings are used to move a track onscreen horizontally, vertically, or to distort any or all of the four corners. A built-in title generator, while not the most sophisticated, is a solid feature for meeting 95 percent of one's title needs. It will use any font currently installed and adds the ability to create drop shadows and gradient-filled text. Text can vary in size, color, and style. Premiere 5.1 adds support for DV footage, but be cautious here--support for DV compressed footage and the IEEE 1394 (FireWire) port isn't as universal on Windows as it is on the Mac. As of this writing, Premiere 5.1c (the latest version) works only with some FireWire boards and DV codecs (compressor/decompressor). Check with Adobe or the hardware manufacturer for compatibility before making this purchase if you plan on using Premiere for Windows with FireWire. Overall, Premiere is maturing into a professional yet easy package. The advent of DV hardware is enabling anyone to shoot high-quality video--Premiere is a good choice to edit your feature film and get ready for your own "premiere." --Mike Caputo ... | |
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